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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 27m

Like a fight scene from Dr. Strange.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 13h

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

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An "L 7" Halloweenie @travisa.bsky.social · 10h

And the funny part is that, with the way gen-AI works and always WILL work, this is literally the only time anything in this video will look like that. No player will have the same experience as anyone else, and that's not a compliment.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

Why didn't I choose to Lergevhtiepsappe?

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 5h

I see something new every time I watch it. 😂

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 11h

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2h

Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get.

Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe his time filming Surf Ninjas has something to do with his current brainlessness? Like...maybe his brain strangled itself when he read the script.

a man with red hair says knives oh yeah seriously that 's something money can 't buy knives

Alt: An idiot with red hair says "knives? Oh yeah, seriously that 's something money can 't buy: knives"

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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 1h

What I am describing is the rise and fall of artist value.

Humans, with families to support, with hopes and dreams, with creative, intelligent minds that want to experience joy making the thing they love. Game art.

We have had our value stripped away whiost forced to pay more to just fix crap.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

But along the way I enjoyed the sense of being a part of creating a mod for a game.

When the Modern Warfare BF1942 mod was hired by EA/DICE to develop their work into BF2, we all thought a new era had arrived.

...and then the team was fired immediately after BF2 launched.

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

I really wanted to make an autopiloted C-47 which would work as a moving spawn point for paratrooper maps.

Pretty sure that was entirely beyond the capability of the Battlefield game engine. It was definitely beyond my modding abilities.

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

I spent a LOT of time thinking about this stuff. So much so, that my compulsive behavior to *play* video games turned into a compulsive behavior to *mod* video games.

And then at some point I realized I wasn't very good at it, and it wasn't as fun. And that was basically the end of my gaming life.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

This was the golden era of online BBS forums, and so for a while I dabbled with map design, (BF1942 eventually included a map editor in their SDK) 3D modeling in Gmax, texture skinning, reload animations, and hacking vehicle data files to try and create an amphibious plane/submarine, a train, etc.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

XWWII, which did its level best to turn an arcade game into something which better approximated actual combat, had a pretty good project management oversight, and ended up absorbing assets from other defunct mods along the way.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

This thread reminds me of my misspent youth modding Battlefield 1942, struggling with GMax to try and make additional gun models.

There were some wonderful modding communities, although how well various mods turned out generally depended more on project management from the top than other skills.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

Hmm, why does this sound familiar?

a group of people are sitting at a table and one of them is saying hey i 've seen this one .

Alt: Marty McFly from Back to the Future recognizes a show on TV in 1955. "Hey, I've seen this one—this is a classic!"

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

Hmm, sounds like a speed run of separating craftsmen from the product of their work.

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

Some of the architectural space reminds me of other Alma-Tadema Roman works, like "Spring," or..."Spring, but this time with Dinosaurs."

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's "Spring," which depicts an imagined Roman procession through a city.

Flowers and marble and people dropping things from rooftop balconies, oh my!

Alma-Tadema is notable for his hyper-detailed style. The marble looks real, and the detail extends down to the flower petals. In another painting, he incorporated something like 6000 individual red rose petals, each one modeled from a real rose petal. He had roses shipped daily from the Riviera in order to accomplish this obsessive detail.
He is also noted for his massive scale. This painting, Spring, is at the Getty in Los Angeles, and is VERY large. With the frame, I think it's about 6 feet tall, and 2.5 wide.

Dinotopia author-artist James Gurney does his best pastiche of Alma-Tadema, with dinosaurs joining the parade.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2h

Spicy take: literally all of us have a "Nazi streak"

For example: just like Adolf Hitler, I too believe Nazis should be shot in the head

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Trump's pick to lead the federal watchdog agency withdraws amid GOP objections over his MLK and "Nazi streak" text messages.

Trump pick to lead federal watchdog agency withdraws after offensive text messages were revealed

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency withdrew from consideration Tuesday after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 2h

Man, you clip the greatest gifs. What is this from?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

Maybe we should all apply and then wash out of the academy.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Omg, this detail from CNN about the ICE hiring snafu is wild. This seems like an HR 101 level thing to get right.

They turned a hiring bonus into something much closer to an application bonus.

Seems like a great way to burn a ton of cash. Also? Here’s some waste for sure!

The signing bonus also prompted discussions internally because it’s not contingent on a key part of the hiring process, which is passing the academy, another source said. Even candidates who don’t pass the academy and are slotted for administrative jobs are still pocketing thousands of dollars.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6h

I do think we have a pretty good chance of turning gambling into a genuine popular moral crusade 19th century style, because it's becoming a social evil that's destroying young men's lives in particular but also making sports coverage really shit.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 5h

Yup. It was only a matter of time...

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Spicy auto-correct likes to use a lot of weird punctuation because it was trained on stolen work, including my own, and I use punctuation like I'm a British children's author from 1880. I like - and ; so much that I tracked them down as pony beads, so I could use them in bead bracelets.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 5h

When people in the movement say "We would do anything to help save babies" there is a giant asterisk, and in fine print at the bottom it says "...so long as it is within the right-wing political vision for America."

They will not save babies if it means moving one inch away from capitalism.

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